Resource Page DescriptionA simple code example for enabling speech recognition in our Visual Basic 2008 applications running on Microsoft Windows Vista. The code example illustrates how to create a Windows Presentation Foundation applications that receives vocal commands.
Interesting features Microsoft Windows Vista (
only English localization) includes speech recognition capabilities based on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0. This code example shows how to:
- create a Windows Presentation Foundation application
- start the speech recognition engine in Windows Vista
- implement custom grammar rules that the application can receive and send as commands to UI's controls as if they where sent using the mouse.
You'll be able to speak a couple words to click a button and to close the application!
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Visual Basic 2008 source code provided and lot of comments have been added to code. If you have any questions or suggestion, please use the
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